Sawmill



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WM. BRYANT, OF DAVIDSOBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.

SAWIVIILL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 2,127, dated June 11, 1841.

T0 all whomy t may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM BRYANT, of the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sawmills; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention, consists in placing the guides which direct the saw, at'

such an angle with the lengthwise direction of the log, or tiniber to be sawed, that the shavings, or parings, in being cut by the saw, are peeled, or raised in the lengthwise direction of the log.

To enable others to inake and use my inyention, I proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct the inills, niuch as colninon inills are Inade, except the guides A, A, in which the saw gate B, B, runs, are placed at an angle of about 450, with the longitudinal direction of the log or tiin'ber to be sawed; the angle may be more or less than 4:50, but I ind that angle for the saw c, to be Very suitable; the saw teeth D, D, are more hooked, or project more forward than the connnon inill saw teeth.

The carriage and log inay be inoyed forward to the saw, by a screw and rack, or by other ineans used for that purpose.

Motion is given to the saw in the connnon manner, by a. crank moving a pitinan, in the line or direction oit the guides; the crank and pitinan may be placed either above or below the saw.

What I claiin as niy invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The placing the guides which direct the saw, at such an angle with the' log, or tilnber to be sawed, that the shavings in being cut, are peeled or raised and carried forward by the teeth of the saw, in the lengthwise direction of the tiinber sawed.

I/VILLIAM BRYANT.

Iitnesses IVILLIAM JAMES, JOHN WRIGHT. 

